In the long and recurring drama of political movements that rise by promising to clean house, Reform UK now finds itself answering questions about the cleanliness of its own finances. Undercover footage has surfaced showing advisers to Nigel Farage apparently arranging contributions from foreign sources — a practice prohibited under British law precisely because democracies have learned, at cost, what outside money can do to domestic politics. The disclosure arrives at a moment meant to project strength, turning a party conference into something closer to a reckoning, and reminding observers t